Domenicali: F1 credibility on the line with FIA Abu Dhabi report

Formula 1 chief executive Stefano Domenicali has urged the FIA to be transparent and to release the full details and lessons of its investigation into last year's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, an action essential to safeguarding Grand Prix racing's.

The FIA will present its comprehensive report into the events that unfolded at F1's title decider at Yas Marina at this Saturday's World Motor Sport Council meeting.

Domenicali believes there is little point revisiting the actions of former F1 race director Michael Masi at Saturday's meeting, with the F1 boss only interested in the FIA's ability to take on board the lessons learned from the Abu Dhabi controversy.

"In the next days, the FIA will formally discuss that at the World Motor Sport Council, because I think what we need to avoid is a personal discussion," Domenicali told Sky F1.

"We are all human beings, you may say that you are performing well as a driver, as a team, as a referee, but this is not relevant to the credibility of the sport, if the sport will take all the lessons in order to improve that.

"The credibility is passing through this kind of action, and this is what we’re expecting the FIA to take on board in their preparation of next year."

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Many in F1 believe that the integrity of the FIA will be called into question if it fails to share the full findings of its investigation. But Domenicali is hopeful the governing body will deliver its report in full to the public.

"I will attend the World Council next Saturday, and we will see. That is the aim, to have a step forward to move forward from Abu Dhabi.

"We are already in Bahrain. So there is no need to talk about a different approach other than to say what we learned as regulator from that last race."

In the wake of Masi's ousting, the FIA has restructured F1's race direction, with two individuals, Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas, alternately sharing race director duties over the course of the season, with veteran F1 official Herbie Blash advising both men on race weekends.

When asked if decisions would now reside with a committee, Domenicali made clear that the race director, while well supported, will remain the sole individual in charge.

"The race direction has to be an entity organised in a proper way, but the race director is a man, or a woman, or a person, who has to take the right decision," he said.

"And he can take the right decision if he’s well supported, if he has all the tools that are available for him to make this judgement.

"I do believe that what you are saying is totally aligned with my thought. You don’t have the time to make a committee, you need to make sure all what you have around you is enabling you to take the right decision."

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